Monday, May 22, 2006

Houses and Cars

So since the last installment...

We have moved hotels and the new one is nice. We have a kitchen which is useful, not just a coffee station. There are pools, hot and cold.

Liam's birthday was on friday and he got to chose what we had for dinner, he wanted noddles so we had thai, he got chicken noddles, they were really nice like pad thai almost, the food here is interesting, there's almost everything style wise, but they're particularly good at the mexican and BBQ stuff. There's a thing about green chillies - not sure why.

We looked at a couple of houses from the outside after work on friday, looked OK and worth a look inside.
Went to look at cars too, didn't see anything that grabbed us, not that we were sure what we wanted.

Saturday we packed up and snail like drove around with all out stuff in the vechile with us. A guy Richard has met at work had a couple of houses for us to look at, they're both brand new but not that close to work for Richard. Great house thou with excellent spaces, living d/s with guest bathroom three bedrooms u/s with a living area at the junction of the rooms, enormous master bath and walk in closest, Rick recon's he could use it as a office. Do I want to drive back and forward everyday that far? Should we get two cars? humm still more houses out there. So we contacted one of the agencies we've been emailing with and went and collected keys to two houses, one of the ones from friday and one other, almost next to one we saw in the morning. Neither any good.

We're not sure whether we want to be in a house or apartment so we'll keep looking at both until we find the right place.

We went back to the auto park saturday PM and looked at an Audi which we've brought. Its pearl white coloured, Im not sure of the 'official' name for it I'll need to find out. It has extra seats in the boot or trunk, which will make it useful for visitors and all kinds of other 'features' like seat warmers, which I'm sure we'll apreciate in the winter.

There were lots of BIG cars like engine, and body big but no extra useable stuff inside, so looks like a tank fits four/five people and bags. We plan to trip around abit so space for easy tossing of stuff is good.

Purchase of the car was extra interesting without a/address b/credit history c/social security number. I haven't brought a car on a credit card before.

The driving around looking at houses is starting to get me familiar with the place. It's lost the dry desoil look. I think Im getting use to it.

2 comments:

Susan Harper said...

Are any houses fitted with a porch swing?

Christine said...

I've seen porch swings on houses as we've been driving around. I imagine they'd be very pleasant in the evenings or late afternoon. I haven't seen anyone on them but it's usually morning or mid day when we're passing.